Jeff Foster

@TaoOutsider @taostacker Couldn't find the calculator in your friend's bio. Can you link?

For anyone who wants to use the calculator, the link is in the bio of my friend @taostacker. The builder of it. Worth following him as well.

How to invest in a $TAO Bittensor subnet and still end up +11% after a 43% drawdown. The average APY across subnets in the $TAO Bittensor ecosystem sits around 70%, based on a quick simulation I ran. Some people prefer to stay in Root because subnet risk feels uncomfortable. Root’s average APY today is roughly 6%. Comfort has a price. So I ran the numbers. If I allocate 10 TAO into Affine, $dTAO subnet 120, with the alpha token priced at 0.070 TAO, and that alpha price drops 43% the next day, 0.040t, and stays flat for an entire year, while APY holds at 70%, I still end the year with more TAO than I would by staying in Root. Around 11%. (Check in the picture) That reframes the question. Risk is not subnets. Risk is ignorance. Risk is allocating blindly, chasing posts on X, picking subnets because they look cool, or never modeling downside scenarios. If you want comfort, stay in Root. If you want to outperform, study Bittensor, understand $dTAO dynamics, and run your own simulations. I’ll drop the calculator link and the creator’s profile in the first comment. PS: Root is the food court at Disneyland.